Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 83 80
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,105 1,723 2,302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.81% 3.49% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 3.94% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 818 1,367
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,999
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £92,313 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,898 43,727 63,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.69% 81.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58,675 24,676 35,715
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,313 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -29 1,817 £75,000 +0.67% 2,055
UK excluding London -24 1,155 £67,500 -3.57% 1,024
Work from Home -21 855 £67,500 -3.57% 972
London -18 796 £85,000 +6.25% 1,252
North of England -51 374 £75,000 +7.14% 312
South East +33 326 £65,000 -7.14% 211
North West -55 201 £80,000 +14.29% 173
South West -10 142 £63,750 +6.25% 101
Midlands -62 105 £75,000 +7.14% 109
North East +14 93 £65,000 +49.86% 51
Yorkshire 0 80 £70,121 -4.60% 90
West Midlands -46 77 £80,000 +14.29% 69
Northern Ireland -23 71 £60,000 +33.33% 67
Wales -14 68 £60,000 +15.38% 20
East of England -49 40 £60,100 -3.84% 87
Scotland -46 33 £65,500 -15.48% 122
East Midlands -62 28 £65,000 - 40
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (2.09%) Confluence
2 31 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.95%) Apache
4 16 (0.76%) CMS
5 13 (0.62%) Camunda
6 11 (0.52%) IIS
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.38%) nginx
10 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.33%) JBoss
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.33%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.14%) DNN
13 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.095%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,080 (51.31%) AWS
2 887 (42.14%) Azure
3 329 (15.63%) GCP
4 272 (12.92%) GitHub
5 269 (12.78%) Serverless
6 201 (9.55%) SaaS
7 182 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
8 152 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
9 132 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (5.84%) Amazon S3
10 123 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 105 (4.99%) GitHub Copilot
12 95 (4.51%) Azure Service Bus
13 91 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
15 68 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
16 65 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
17 61 (2.90%) Azure AKS
18 51 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 49 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.14%) Broadband
2 21 (1.00%) Network Security
3 14 (0.67%) DMARC
3 14 (0.67%) DNS
4 12 (0.57%) MQTT
5 10 (0.48%) AMQP
5 10 (0.48%) HTTP
6 9 (0.43%) VPN
7 7 (0.33%) Internet
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.24%) RFID
9 5 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.14%) DHCP
10 3 (0.14%) Firewall
10 3 (0.14%) LTE
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 3 (0.14%) SSL
11 1 (0.048%) Wireless
11 1 (0.048%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (15.01%) MongoDB
2 233 (11.07%) PostgreSQL
3 204 (9.69%) NoSQL
4 165 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 152 (7.22%) Elasticsearch
6 116 (5.51%) MySQL
7 109 (5.18%) SQL Server
8 94 (4.47%) Relational Database
9 70 (3.33%) Redis
10 58 (2.76%) DynamoDB
11 45 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.52%) Big Data
13 20 (0.95%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.76%) Pinecone
15 15 (0.71%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.57%) Db2
16 12 (0.57%) DTS
17 9 (0.43%) Chroma
17 9 (0.43%) Metadata
18 8 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 301 (14.30%) Git
2 194 (9.22%) GitLab
3 166 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 70 (3.33%) TeamCity
5 65 (3.09%) JIRA
5 65 (3.09%) JUnit
6 55 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 41 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 38 (1.81%) Mockito
9 36 (1.71%) Maven
10 31 (1.47%) Claude Code
11 30 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (1.19%) Selenium
13 17 (0.81%) SonarQube
13 17 (0.81%) Spock
14 15 (0.71%) JMeter
15 14 (0.67%) Postman
15 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.62%) Vite
17 10 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 538 (25.56%) Finance
2 428 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 237 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 206 (9.79%) Banking
5 167 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 158 (7.51%) Law
7 146 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
8 131 (6.22%) Retail
9 88 (4.18%) Legal
10 86 (4.09%) Financial Institution
11 64 (3.04%) Back Office
12 60 (2.85%) Marketing
13 44 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 37 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.47%) Games
16 28 (1.33%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.86%) Front Office
18 17 (0.81%) Advertising
19 12 (0.57%) Aviation
20 11 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 770 (36.58%) Developer
2 507 (24.09%) Senior
3 377 (17.91%) Software Engineer
4 362 (17.20%) Lead
5 322 (15.30%) Architect
6 200 (9.50%) .NET Developer
7 195 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 170 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 164 (7.79%) Java Developer
10 135 (6.41%) Java Engineer
11 130 (6.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 125 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 109 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
14 107 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
15 81 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
16 79 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
17 77 (3.66%) Software Developer
18 70 (3.33%) Lead Developer
19 66 (3.14%) Technical Leader
20 60 (2.85%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 539 (25.61%) .NET
2 458 (21.76%) React
3 428 (20.33%) Node.js
4 404 (19.19%) Terraform
5 388 (18.43%) Spring
6 350 (16.63%) Spring Boot
7 319 (15.15%) RESTful
8 295 (14.01%) REST
9 286 (13.59%) Kafka
10 239 (11.35%) ASP.NET
11 227 (10.78%) AngularJS
12 218 (10.36%) .NET Core
13 209 (9.93%) Vue
14 194 (9.22%) ASP.NET Core
15 122 (5.80%) Blazor
16 103 (4.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 95 (4.51%) HTML
18 91 (4.32%) CSS
19 88 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
20 86 (4.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 680 (32.30%) Cloud Native
2 390 (18.53%) Distributed Systems
3 167 (7.93%) Product Ownership
4 118 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 59 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 56 (2.66%) AI Agents
9 52 (2.47%) Virtual Team
10 45 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 44 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (2.04%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
14 23 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.00%) Management Information System
16 20 (0.95%) Mainframe
16 20 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 20 (0.95%) Private Cloud
17 19 (0.90%) Algorithms
17 19 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.08%) Linux
2 48 (2.28%) Windows
3 32 (1.52%) CentOS
3 32 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.00%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.33%) Debian
7 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.29%) AIX
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,138 (54.06%) CI/CD
2 1,012 (48.08%) Agile
3 755 (35.87%) Software Engineering
4 748 (35.53%) DevOps
5 577 (27.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 548 (26.03%) Mentoring
7 491 (23.33%) Event-Driven
8 461 (21.90%) AI
9 446 (21.19%) Test Automation
10 428 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 422 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 402 (19.10%) Containerisation
13 379 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
14 325 (15.44%) Technical Leadership
15 303 (14.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 297 (14.11%) Scrum
17 253 (12.02%) Architectural Patterns
18 249 (11.83%) Observability
19 238 (11.31%) TDD
20 232 (11.02%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 755 (35.87%) Java
2 576 (27.36%) C#
3 507 (24.09%) SQL
4 457 (21.71%) JavaScript
5 431 (20.48%) Python
6 407 (19.33%) TypeScript
7 85 (4.04%) Go
8 57 (2.71%) Ruby
9 46 (2.19%) C++
10 35 (1.66%) Bash
11 32 (1.52%) PHP
12 27 (1.28%) Bicep
13 25 (1.19%) PowerShell
14 24 (1.14%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.00%) Rust
16 20 (0.95%) Scala
17 17 (0.81%) Groovy
18 15 (0.71%) C
19 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 343 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 237 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.17%) Degree
4 100 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 85 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 82 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.52%) CISSP
9 31 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.90%) CISM
11 17 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.48%) MBA
15 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.29%) PhD
17 5 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
18 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (10.83%) QA
2 95 (4.51%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.76%) WCAG
4 36 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.33%) GDPR
6 20 (0.95%) NIST
7 19 (0.90%) Data Quality
8 18 (0.86%) NCSC
9 10 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.43%) GRC
10 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.24%) PSD2
13 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 593 (28.17%) Docker
2 41 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.48%) NDS
4 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) HDFS
8 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 654 (31.07%) Kubernetes
2 110 (5.23%) Grafana
3 107 (5.08%) Ansible
4 51 (2.42%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.33%) Argo
6 27 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.00%) Puppet
8 17 (0.81%) Kibana
9 9 (0.43%) Cilium
10 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.19%) Packer
13 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.14%) Rancher
14 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
15 1 (0.048%) Consul
15 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 339 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 97 (4.61%) Google
3 72 (3.42%) Oracle
4 49 (2.33%) Splunk
5 45 (2.14%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.38%) Okta
7 27 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 26 (1.24%) ForgeRock
8 26 (1.24%) IBM
9 24 (1.14%) AppDynamics
10 23 (1.09%) Databricks
11 17 (0.81%) OneLogin
12 14 (0.67%) Adobe
12 14 (0.67%) OpenText
12 14 (0.67%) SAP
12 14 (0.67%) SendGrid
13 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
13 13 (0.62%) Mistral
14 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.52%) ServiceNow